Show Lillie that your pretended love was not selfishness pure and simple.
With kind greetings,
Yours sincerely,
Elsie Lindtner.
P.S.—I would rather not answer your personal attacks. I could not have acted differently and I regret nothing.
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To-morrow morning I will get rid of that gardener without fail.
An extra month's wages and money for his journey—whatever is necessary—so long as he goes.
I wish to sleep in peace and to feel sure that my house is safely locked up, and I cannot sleep a wink so long as I know he comes to see Torp.
That my cook should have a man in does not shock me, but it annoys me. It makes me think of things I wish to forget.
I seem to hear them laughing and giggling downstairs.
Madness! I could not really hear anything that was going on in the basement. The birds were restless, because the night is too light to let them sleep. The sea gleams under the silver dome of the moonlit sky.